[snowrip]

Peter Lee is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Taiwan. Lee worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1984 to 1991, and for TRW Inc., a contractor to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, from 1973 to 1984 and again from 1991to 1997.10

Lee has admitted to the FBI that, in 1997, he passed to PRC weapons scientists classified research into the detection of enemy submarines under water. This research, if successfully completed, could enable the PLA to threaten previously invulnerable U.S. nuclear submarines.

Lee made the admissions in 1997 during six adversarial interviews with the FBI. According to Lee, the illegal transfer of this sensitive research occurred while he was employed by TRW, Inc., a contractor for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The classified U.S.information was developed by Lawrence Livermore as part of a joint United States-United Kingdom Radar Ocean Imaging project for anti-submarine warfare applications.

Consider what China's harvest of U.S. military technology will enable China to do. Through cooperative satellite launch programs China acquired the technology for accurate staging and orbital placement of large rockets, as well as multiple satellite release. The Clinton Administration licensed the sale of a McDonnell Douglas manufacturing facility. This means that China will be able to build a force of big, mobile, accurate, multiple warhead missiles better than the ones we designed nearly two decades ago. It may take them a few years to do it, but when they start it will escalate rapidly. As for warheads, through the efforts of Wen Ho Lee at Los Alamos, China apparently got the entire dump on design and manufacturing of all our major nukes, including the W-88 warhead: 150 Kilotons delivered to within about 80 yards. Through Peter Lee at Livermore, China apparently got the key to testing these warheads through simulations and in a camouflage mode.

That was nearly a decade ago. If you think that China's military is totally backward, you're sorely mistaken. We may still have a comparative technological edge over them in many areas, but that gap is closing far in advance of every Pentagon study.

[The Blitherer]

Lee has admitted to the FBI that, in 1997, he passed to PRC weapons scientists classified research into the detection of enemy submarines under water.

Another proud moment for the Clinton Administration.

[reagandemo]

I agree that there has been a narrowing of the gap. However, remember that it being nearly 10 years ago that this happened. Don't you think we have been moving to counter act whatever damage was done in new and better technologies?

[Zhang Fei]

That was nearly a decade ago. If you think that China's military is totally backward, you're sorely mistaken. We may still have a comparative technological edge over them in many areas, but that gap is closing far in advance of every Pentagon study.

The guy provided some really high-level concepts - all of which has been declassified, which was why he stayed out of jail. If high-level concepts alone could help us put together advanced weapons systems, we wouldn't be spending $100b a year on weapons acquisitions. Note that this information is available to everyone else, including the Russians, who are the primary arms suppliers to the Chinese. Has it made a difference? It's really hard to tell. My impression of Russian weaponry is that it has nice specs, but always seems to fall short of those specs in actual use.